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The Medici Subverter of Poggio a Caiano
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By Camilla Torracchi (Università degli Studi di Firenze)
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Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
16th-century book by Giorgio Vasari
"The Lives" redirects here. For other uses, see Lives.
"Vite" redirects here. For the software, see Vite (software).
Title page of the edition of Le Vite | |
| Author | Giorgio Vasari |
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| Original&#;title | Le Vite de più eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori italiani, da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri |
| Translator | Eliza Foster |
| Language | Italian |
| Subject | Artist biographies |
| Publisher | Torrentino (), Giunti () |
Publication date | , enlarged and revised in |
| Publication place | Duchy of Florence |
Published&#;in English | |
| Pages | (), () |
| OCLC | |
Dewey Decimal | |
| LC&#;Class | N V |
Original text | Le Vite de più eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori italiani, da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri at Italian Wikisource |
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Italian: Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori), often simply known as The Lives (Italian: Le Vite), is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older literature of art"
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